Slightly off topic, I apologize in advance. Do these type of injections set off a flag if your checked for doping after a race?.
I might need one for a Sciatica issue.
Ron W.
Having sciatica for 6 months last year, and knowing how painful this is, who cares, if the shot helps you, nothing is worth not doing because one might get tested and it might be an issue. Since you will never be tested, …
Slightly off topic, I apologize in advance. Do these type of injections set off a flag if your checked for doping after a race?.
I might need one for a Sciatica issue.
Ron W.
Having sciatica for 6 months last year, and knowing how painful this is, who cares, if the shot helps you, nothing is worth not doing because one might get tested and it might be an issue. Since you will never be tested, …
Are you saying you don’t know if a steroid injection is banned? Would you still race if it was? Don’t you rail against the ‘dopers’ in your races??
I feel the need to make my dissenting opinion known. Epidural injections are a risk. There is risk of infection, risk of hitting the nerve, risk of an unexpected reaction, risk of having a null effect, etc. Additionally, epidurals do not cure lower back pain. An epidural is typically and cocktail of pain reducing medication and a steroid for reducing inflammation injected into the space surrounding the nerve root thought to be sending pain down the leg. Mistakes can happen.
If you have a mechanical problem, disc material compressing a nerve route, reducing swelling might have a positive effect. However, there is no guarantee that this is permanent. In fact several previous posters report needing this procedure over again in subsequent years. Lower back pain is like the common cold. We need to learn how to manage it rather that fix it once and for all. It happens to nearly everyone and we should be more concerned with treating the pain and functional limits that result rather than the proposed anatomical defect. The research is very clear that disc material (HNP) presence on MRI does not equal pain. Treating an MRI result rather than the mechanical issue can have deleterious effects. Find a PT who knows how to treat mechanical low back pain; Mckenzie approach is well-researched, non-invasive and very dependent on patient self-treatment.
Agree with this ^^